Hello: At 23:17 12/12/2003, you wrote: >Greetings All, > >As for the trivia questions: > >What is the largest flower of a diploid species Hippeastrum? (must be diploid >and species rank, non-hybrid; forma and variety acceptable) I'll accept more >than one correct answer as I feel it's a matter up for reasonable discussion. The longer one i think its Hippeastrum parodii, perhaps H. ambiguum can be as long in another condition. >What is the smallest growing, shortest, not necessisarily smallest flower, >Hippeastrum? (diploid again, species...etc.) As far as i know, its Hippeastrum petiolatum although its not a diploid but a good species, in fact is a natural sterile pentaploid, probably an hybrid between H. aglaiae and H. striatum or H. reticulatum, when the natural distribution of this species was overlapped. >Does anyone out there grow H. puniceum v. haywardii? Does it exist as H. >haywardii? I have under culture H. puniceum i am not sure if H. haywardii exist. Best wishes Germán _________________________________________ Germán Roitman mailto:roitman@mail.agro.uba.ar _________________________________________